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Portraits of the collaborative-self: “this is not about having your picture taken”

• Hayward has invented a kind of portraiture that invites his subjects to be full collaborators in their own self-definition. No wonder they respond with such passion. – carter ratcliff, art critic, author of The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art.• …amazing and enticing portraits. – richard merkin, VANITY FAIR• Bill Hayward’s work is portraiture for the new century. – timothy mcdarrah, ASPP

• Hayward has devised a means to finger-print the imagination with forensic exactitude. – david cohen, artcritical